This article will be showing how to concert aperture scan cards into documents on Microstation. This is a very essential process for engineers and many other professions. In the field of engineering, These aperture cards store images of designs from many years ago. Converting them into the Microstation program gives engineers access to design and change up these documents.

Steps

1

Locate cards within the drawers, in accordance to which drawing you need to convert. The drawers are usually organized by number of drawings. Each drawing is designated its own number.

2

Turn on the aperture card scanner that prints out the scans. There is a black switch on the left side of the machine that you click for it to turn on. This machine usually takes anywhere from five to ten minutes to warm up. You will know that the machine is ready to be used once the button goes from orange to green.

3

Adjust the light exposure and magnification level. This setting makes it easier to see once the paper is printed out.

4

Print out the drawing by hitting the green button once all your settings are properly set. If you print out the drawing and it is not clear again, simply adjust the settings again and print again. This might take a couple of attempts to get right.

5

Head over to the Xerox scanner. Hit scan to mailbox and proceed to scan the documents one by one. You are not able to scan more than one document at a time.

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Align your printed documents with the edges and proper paper size that you have. By default, the scanner prints out a 18x24 sized paper. This will most likely because your size.

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Slide the document faced down through the scanner and wait for it to come out through the other side.

8

Proceed to your computer and open up the folder labeled "Xerox_scans". This is where the scanner sends all the documents. Once in this folder, you copy and paste all the photos into your properly named folder.

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Open up Microstation and open the tool on the top toolbar labeled 'Raster Master'. After opening up this tool you hit file and attach, then proceed to attach the document you wish to convert.

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Save two things. One would be the Microstation file with the extension .dgn and the other being the file within the raster master with extension .cit.

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Resize the drawing according to the labels in the drawing. You can use the 'Measure Length' tool to make sure the sizes are correct.

12

Clear up the extra mess on your document that was created by the scanner. You could do this by simply using the 'Erase' tool.

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Double check that all the steps were correctly done. If so, hit save settings and also hit save. You have now converted an aperture scan into a Microstation document.

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Do any required troubleshooting:

The Aperture card sometimes gets stuck when putting it into the card scanner. If this happens, simply grab another card and push in the one that is stuck. This will fix your problem.

Sizes do not correlate. The biggest reason that your sizes do not correlate is because of your scale setting. You could change this scale setting under 'References'.